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Have you thought of culinary school? This is a good thing, because then you can not only learn how to cook delicious meals, and get into a nice restaurant and cook if you don't get married right away, but you can learn how to cook delicious meals and prepare for when you have to cook for your own family. My eldest is 14, and that's what she wants to do once she gets to be old enough to leave home (which she likely won't do.) She'll stay here and attend culinary classes and then either work, or have a prospect by the time she's of age. There are plenty of available traditional men up in this neck of the woods.

Wow, I wish I had done that! Bet may family does too.    :ready-to-eat:

There are plenty of available traditional men up in this neck of the woods.

Where is your neck of the woods?

Philomene-Marie,

I accidentally gave you post a "thumbs-down".

About culinary school...I've been warned that it isn't as promising as many believe. One person who is involved in teaching told me that it is as worthless as a BA degree.

However if your goal is to learn how to cook for your family it might be a good choice.

Believe it or not ( and I do because a law school student just read it to me from new admissions information provided by a top law school, last week ) one of the BEST preparatory curriculum choices is a professional level culinary arts degree for those interested in law school.  I'm not talking about a mom and pop establishment or a junior college, although some of those can provide decent instruction, but an accredited college program that has a track record of producing REAL chefs capable of working in first-class restaurants during and after graduation with a BA.

The regimen is "semi-military" ( uniforms, set protocols, lots of screaming and yelling at underperformers, etc. ) and a form of "socratic pedagogy" is employed by leading culinary institutes. The faculty chefs, and a number of these are highly paid Executive Chefs at 4 and 5 star restaurants in major cities, constantly force students to think on their feet, reason and problem solve under intense pressure and produce a complicated product. Also critical are personal research skills, done on one's own, very limited, free time. It is a very demanding, 12 to 15 hours per day, 5 days a week, for at least three to four years.

And that, in a nutshell, describes almost exactly what a law school forces its own students to do in order to even hold their place in school, let alone graduate with a JD.